S.African ‘diamond rush’ unearths only quartz crystals, officials say

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S.African ‘diamond rush’ unearths only quartz crystals, officials say: Unidentified stones that lured thousands of fortune seekers to a rural South African village to mine the land with picks and shovels were not diamonds as hoped, officials said on Sunday, but quartz …

IN QUOTES | From 150 daily infections to 500 – KZN premier Sihle Zikalala warns against complacency: The premier named eThekwini, uMgungundlovu, uThukela, Amajuba and uMzinyathi as five districts that continuously received the highest number of cases on a daily basis.

SA diamond rush called off after fortune-seekers disappointed by finding quartz: MINING hopefuls were disappointed to find that the diamonds they had been digging for in KwaZulu-Natal’s KwaHlathi were in fact quartz of little economic value. Reuters reported that thousands of …

Regret over a coffee date I missed with Thulani Thuswa: It was a particularly beautiful Sunday morning and I was waiting in a long queue at Kranskop toll gate near Modimolle when I decided to call Thulani Thuswa. We had agreed that I would take the …

KwaHlathi diamond rush ‘misguided’: The “precious” stones that attracted thousands of people to KwaHlathi, near Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal, are not diamonds but quartz crystals and mining them has to stop.

Police recover gun safe, stolen and buried by suspects in Nongoma field: Police arrested five people and recovered firearms and ammunition. It is alleged that a suspect was found digging a hole, concealed by bushes, where he intended to hide the firearms and ammunition.

KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape lead in non-natural deaths, says Stats SA: The Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal had the highest percentage proportion of deaths due to unnatural causes including accidental injury, according to a Statistics SA survey.

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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: Mahatma Ghandi, political activist and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement actually started his political career in Durban when he arrived in 1893.

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